Instalação Ditador fez parte da exposição “Abílio-José Santos. Revelação: Concretos e Visuais” aberta ao público de 4 de julho a 8 de setembro de 2019 no Fórum Maia.

The interactive installation Ditador was at the “Abílio-José Santos. Revelação: Concretos e Visuais” exhibition from July to September 2019.

 

This installation was developed by Grifu, Luís Aly and Marco Jerónimo using eMotion, Qlab, Kinect.

Ditador

Instalação Voa ave voo fez parte da exposição “Abílio-José Santos. Revelação: Concretos e Visuais” aberta ao público de 4 de julho a 8 de setembro de 2019 no Fórum Maia.

The interactive installation Voa ave voo was at the  “Abílio-José Santos. Revelação: Concretos e Visuais” exhibition from July to September 2019.

This installation was developed by Grifu, Luís Aly and Marco Jerónimo using Unity3D, FMOD and LeapMotion.

Ave

Raw video without sound.

The paper “Solitária – Gestural Interface for Puppetry Performance” was presented today (10.03.2020) at the fifth International Conference on Live Interfaces in Trondheim, Norway.

The program can be accessed in https://live-interfaces.github.io/liveinterfaces2020/program/

 

Solitária performance will be presented today (16.11.2019 – 22h) at teatro Helena Sá e Costa included in the program of Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto 2019 (FIMP’19)

“Solitaria is a space for experiment where the clash between man and machine, between real and virtual develops In this experimentation and quest for new narratives, the kinetic movement of the body and the way it fills the empty space will construct a visual and sound narrative”
Artistic direction Amândio Anastácio
Performer Susana Nunes
Multimedia Luís Grifu
Music João Bastos
Puppet Raul Constante Pereira
Lighting design and set design Amândio Anastácio
Lighting technician and set-up António Costa
Production Alexandra Anastácio
Photography Inês Samina
Video Pedro Grenha
Financed by República Portuguesa | Cultura, Direção-Geral das Artes

info: https://2019.fimp.pt/pt/programa#/Solit%C3%A1ria

Artistic residence in Montemor-o-Novo with Amândio in alma d’Arame.

Exploring interactive media with body manipulation and puppetry.

Sound, visuals, lights and video. Working with Kinect, Webcams, Leapmotion and video mapping using Touchdesigner, Ableton Live and Mad Mapper.

Solitaria

Poster for the Solitária performance

Solitária is a performance-play that explores the human Loneliness in the solitary confinement imagining the behavior of a prisoner through is mind and body. Our body is the only connection to the physical world, the only sensor capable to recognize the physical space. However, our sensorial capabilities begin to misbehave and soon we became disorientated.

Debut’s on 9th November 2017 – 21h30 – Blackbox d’O Espaço do Tempo.
Other performances in 10th and 11th November at 21h30 – Blackbox d’O Espaço do Tempo.

 

Solitária follows the performance-play approaches which characterizes the work developed by Alma d’arame from its beginning. Each work starts inside a delimited space, inside it’s own confinement. In one hand, the space of narrative, theater, puppet, being and object and, on the other, the space of programming, kinetics, multimedia. Starting from the solitary and creative space of each one, we saw the common space of creation born. We all have and need that time with ourselves. It is in this time that we find the space of each one, which is ours alone, and where we can relive memories, hide, think, feel, register. Here we will reach own states. That is what this performative act is all about.
It is in this laboratory space that this solitary confrontation between man and machine, between real and virtual, unfolds, and it is this confrontation that will lead us to experimentation and the search for new narratives.
The kinetic movement of the body and how it occupies the empty space will build this visual and sound narrative.

Art team
Direcção artística | Amândio Anastácio;
Interpretação | Susana Nunes;
Multimédia | Luís Grifu;
Música | João Bastos;
Marioneta | Raul Constante Pereira;
Desenho de luz e Espaço cénico | Amândio Anastácio;
Desenho de luz e montagem | António Costa;
Direcção de Produção | Isabel Pinto Coelho;
Assistente de Produção | Alexandra Anastácio;
Fotografia | Inês Samina;
Vídeo | Pedro Grenha;

Production | Alma d’Arame

Apoio | Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo .
Parceria | Espaço do Tempo .
Estrutura Financiada por | Dgartes e Governo de Portugal

Common Spaces performance at Maus Hábitos

Common Spaces performance on ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) Conference in the 18th of July in Maus Hábitos – Porto.

Common Spaces rehearsal

After Gato Vadio in Porto, Salão Brasil in Coimbra, Conde Duque in Madrid, we return to Porto for a new performance.

Common Spaces was performed by members of the Retroescavadora: Rui Torres, Luís Aly, Luís Leite (Grifu), Nuno M.

Common Spaces is an experimental performance that translates spatial poetry into a multidisciplinary collaborative environment that gathers the physical and the virtual spaces. This performance mixes in realtime distinct types of media in a sort of multi-modal orchestrate. A multi-sensorial performance based on our hand gestures (Leap Motion), vision (camera) and voice (microphone).
The common-space derives from the notion of common ground as the medium and the process of communication. It can be understood as a mutual understanding among interactors – as the iterative process of conversation for exchanging evidences between communicators – as an interface.

ELO17

Electronic Literature Organization brought to Porto the state of the art of the field. The Conference was hosted by University Fernando Pessoa, and the Festival and Exhibits were held in the center of the historic city.

 

video

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This week I have attended to the EICS 2017 in Lisbon, were I have met many wonderful people such as Paul Dourish that published a new book called “The Stuff of Bits”, or Gilbert Cockton the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Interactions.

Demo and poster of Mani-Pull-Action at EICS

Demo and poster of Mani-Pull-Action at EICS

The 9th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems was full of interesting interactive surprises. A great place to get to know new trends, and innovative approaches about interactive systems.

I had the privilege to present a full paper entitled “Mani-Pull-Aciton: Hand-based Digital Puppetry” and to provide a live demonstration to all the participants. A great opportunity to get feedback about this work.

The new version of Stringless for Unity supports Zeroconf networking through Bonjour for auto discovery as well RemoteUI.

stringless

Just press play on Unity, and all the parameters that you have chosen for remote control will automatically appear in RemoteUI on another computer, on a IOS or Android Device.
You do not need to manually setup the OSC addresses anymore, just drag a Receiver on a Gameobject and define the value range that RemoteUI will automatically recognize and show you a slider for you to manipulate. These sliders can also be mapped to MIDI devices or other HUD controllers in a similar manner as the MIDI learn feature. Just press the name of the parameter on RemoteUI until it starts to blink, and move a slider on your MIDI controller or a joystick on a gamepad. The mapping will be saved for future sessions. You can also define distinct devices for the same mapping allowing device interchange.

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Stringless support for RemoteUI is just a prototype and still in a developing phase.
Soon, it will be available for download.

Music: bensound.com
May.2017

 

Rui Torres, Luis Ali, Luis Grifu performing at Conde Duque in Madrid (Retroescavadora)

Rui Torres, Luis Aly, Luis Grifu performing at Conde Duque in Madrid (Retroescavadora)

Retroescavadora (Rui Torres, Luis Aly, Luis Grifu) performed with Untitled at Conde Duque in Madrid last 19th of April. The Untitled performance is an experimental multimodal multimedia live performance of the POEX arquive where moving image, sound and manipulation are inter-connected in a real-time dialog.

Retroescavadora at Conde Duque (Madrid)

Rui Torres performing at Conde Duque in Madrid (Untitled performance from Retroescavadora – Rui Torres, Luis Aly, Luis Grifu)

Retroescavadora was invited to be a part of a Poetry recital seeking new languages behind the technologies “La palabra en las periferias de la tecnología”. This session gathered Kònic Thtr (España), Retroescavadora (Portugal), Jörg Piringer (Austria) y Bell Dome (Brasil/Alemania).

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More information at http://condeduquemadrid.es/evento/la-palabra-las-periferias-la-tecnologia-ii-edicion/

Conde Duque Madrid

 

Untitled Performance

Untitled Performance